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Set 181 of 246 / Words 1441-1448 of 1964. Choose specific words in the dictionary

1A research club promises participants that their voluntary remarks will be quoted only with permission. A writer wants to publish a striking remark without asking because it would improve the article. What makes this an ethical issue?A. It concerns only whether the quotation fits the page's margins.B. No question of right conduct can arise unless the article earns money.C. The quotation's vividness automatically settles whether publishing it is right.D. It concerns whether the writer's conduct respects the commitment made to participants.

2In a fictional contest, entrants are promised the same judging criteria. A popular entrant receives extra points for reasons excluded by those criteria. Which correction most directly serves justice in the stated arrangement?A. Apply the promised criteria consistently so each entrant receives the treatment properly due.B. Change only unpopular entrants' scores to preserve the preferred winner.C. Refuse to examine the scoring because some entrants have already complained.D. Keep the extra points solely because the entrant attracts a large audience.

3A fictional referee imposes the maximum available penalty but explains it in a gentle voice. A commentator calls the decision lenient solely because the delivery was kind. What is the problem?A. A softly spoken maximum penalty is necessarily a smaller penalty.B. A decision cannot be strict if its wording contains no insult.C. Leniency means the referee explains the penalty clearly, regardless of severity.D. Leniency concerns reduced strictness or severity, which a gentle tone alone does not establish.

4A furniture designer carefully studies five unfamiliar traditions before choosing a familiar method that meets the project's stated constraints. A critic calls the choice narrow-minded merely because the final method is familiar. What is missing?A. Evidence that the designer was unwilling to consider other approaches, contrary to the study described.B. A requirement that considering an unfamiliar method always means adopting it.C. Evidence that every design project has at least one practical constraint.D. Proof that a familiar method was chosen, which the account already states.

5An editor invites competing explanations, checks their evidence, and rejects one because its quoted data are inaccurate. The rejected writer calls the criticism intolerance. Why is that label not established by the account?A. Evidence-based criticism of a claim does not itself show unwillingness to accept differing beliefs or people.B. The editor must dislike all disagreement because one explanation was rejected.C. Accepting differing views requires treating every factual claim as equally accurate.D. Any refusal to publish an inaccurate quotation proves hostility toward the writer's identity.

6A trainee explains that a confusing form has caused repeated errors. Which response is unsympathetic to the stated difficulty?A. Show me which instruction becomes unclear when you fill it in.B. Your difficulty does not interest me; stop wasting my time with it.C. Let us compare your reading with what the form was intended to ask.D. We may need a clearer example if several people make the same error.

7In an invented civic exercise, a legislative assembly formally enacts a written law establishing public park hours. A volunteer later posts an informal suggestion about picnic times. Which is a statute?A. Both documents, because any public text is automatically a law.B. The volunteer's suggestion merely because it is written down.C. Neither document, because a law cannot concern an ordinary activity.D. The written park-hours law formally enacted by the legislature.

8Residents in a civic game vote directly on whether two fictional districts should merge. They are not selecting officials to decide later. Why is this a referendum?A. A survey asks for opinions but explicitly gives the responses no decision-making role.B. The public directly decides a specific proposal.C. A single official privately decides the issue and merely announces it.D. The public chooses representatives without deciding any proposal itself.

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